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I have a Generic External CD Rom Drive and...




By gfong292 on May 04, 2009

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I have a Generic External CD Rom Drive for my Gateway mt6711 laptop and Vista says it a unknown device and will not recognize it. I don't know the manufacturer's name as it is a generic external cd rom player I purchased from ebay. Any idea what I can do to fix this?
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May 04, 2009

- How do you boot this external drive?

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posted on May 04, 2009
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jeroencur

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Can you boot from this external drive maybe you need to set some bios options.
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May 04, 2009

- Well this you have to change some settings in the bios. Not all laptops have this older wants do not. Check also if the cdrom works on an other system.

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